"As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there woul…"

"He claims to have reasons. And yet, don’t all fanatics?"

"The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of tran…"

"I hope you good, loyal Americans understand that in the long run the Islamic extremists are going to win. Because you…"

"It is precisely because an ideal is necessary to man that the man without ideals is in permanent danger of fanaticism."

"The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness and holi…"

"The fanatic is perpetually incomplete and insecure."

"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there i…"

"J. B. S. Haldane counts fanaticism among the only four really important inventions made between 3000 B.C and 1400 A.D…"

"I have noticed that this kind of fanatic, like every other kind, is in two species: the species which too clearly thi…"